Everything in AI is in flux. In fact, a lack of predictability will define this new era. That was one of the overarching takeaways from the second annual Intelligent Applications… Read More
[Editor’s Note: On this week’s GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring an episode of Shift AI, a podcast hosted by Boaz Ashkenazy, CEO of AI solutions provider Simply Augmented, with guest Matt… Read More
— Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced it added three new venture partners: Loren Alhadeff, Mark Nelson, and Ted Kummert. Alhadeff, formerly the COO of DocuSign, has more… Read More
IBM announced a deal Monday to buy Apptio for $4.6 billion from Vista Equity Partners, less than five years after the private equity firm acquired the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud and… Read More
Cloud computing vets Craig McLuckie and Luke Hinds are leading a new startup that helps enterprises vet software supply chains amid a rise in cyber-breaches stemming from open-source code. Stacklok… Read More
A new Seattle startup wants to make it easier for businesses to monitor their warehouses using artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies. Groundlight emerged from stealth Wednesday, unveiling its platform… Read More
A trio of tech leaders joined forces to promote the creation of robotics startups in the Pacific Northwest, encouraged by the advancements in artificial intelligence and the growing demand for… Read More
Hope Cochran began her career as a senior auditor at Deloitte before serving as CFO of Clearwire and King Digital. She’s a finance expert. But the tech veteran has never… Read More
A wave of layoffs at tech companies is flooding the job market with fresh talent. The trend is sparking questions about whether startups will take advantage, and whether there will… Read More
A trio of former Apple engineers is leading a new data storage platform for developers building machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. Seattle-based XetHub emerged from stealth mode Monday and… Read More
Venture capitalists are in the business of bets, writing checks to the people and ideas they believe are going to impact the world. As part of an annual GeekWire tradition,… Read More
A student team working on tech to extract information from videos took home the 15th annual Madrona Prize Tuesday at the 2022 Annual Research Showcase at the Paul G. Allen… Read More
— Seattle-based firm Madrona Venture Group appointed Wei Gao as venture partner and Anna Baird as operating partner. Gao was most recently chief operating officer at Hopin, a London-based event… Read More
— Microsoft veteran Monica Pool Knox is now chief people officer of data platform company Domo. Knox worked for Microsoft for almost five years, departing in April 2021. She most… Read More
— Michelle Grover was appointed as the first chief technology officer of Slalom, a Seattle-based global business and technology consulting firm. Grover previously served as chief information officer for Twilio, and… Read More
From movie recommendations to chatbots, artificial intelligence-powered applications are deeply ingrained in the modern web experience. But building those same features for a so-called Web3 business — such as adding… Read More
Seattle-based investor and business leader Tom Alberg, who died last week at the age of 82, was a key figure in the e-commerce and wireless industries, and in the Seattle… Read More
— Pet sitting marketplace Rover appointed Charlie Wickers to chief financial officer. Wickers joined Rover in 2017 and most recently served as vice president of finance. He replaces Tracy Knox,… Read More
Tom Alberg will be remembered publicly for everything he did to help create and shape the Seattle region’s tech industry, and for his early investment in Amazon, seeing the potential… Read More
Tom Alberg, a Seattle business and civic leader who played an instrumental role in the creation of industries ranging from e-commerce to wireless communications, died peacefully at his home on… Read More
Goldman Sachs Asset Management will invest $325 million in iSpot.tv as the Seattle-area company loosens industry stalwart Nielsen’s longtime hold on the market for measuring TV ads across broadcast and… Read More
Seattle-area startup Statsig raised $43 million in new funding to further develop and market technology that helps product teams test and evaluate new features, using live data from real customers,… Read More
As a key figure in the PC revolution, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen understood the power of new technologies to create world-changing companies. Later in life, Allen saw the same… Read More
Machine learning, data science and other computational methods are wielded by a growing number of biopharma startups to find new drug targets, design new therapeutics, and support their testing. Venture… Read More
Pasadena, Calif.-based Terray Therapeutics, which combines nanotechnology with artificial intelligence, has raised $60 million in a Series A funding round led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group. Terray’s chips are fit… Read More
— Former Zillow Chief Economist Svenja Gudell is now chief economist at Indeed, leading the job search engine’s research team. “The labor market is a fundamental building block to the… Read More
Why would Microsoft pay $68.7 billion for video-game giant Activision Blizzard? Hope Cochran, managing director at venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group in Seattle, is in a unique position to… Read More
— Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. He has a doctorate in higher education administration from Washington State University and was most recently vice president… Read More
— Life Science Washington announced Marc Cummings as its new CEO and president. He was most recently the trade association’s VP of public policy and external affairs. Former CEO Leslie… Read More
Four Seattle-area companies made a list of top private companies building business applications with artificial intelligence and machine learning. The inaugural Intelligent Applications Top 40 (IA40) list was sponsored by… Read More
